Genes, brains, and human potential : the science and ideology of intelligence / Ken Richardson.
"In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Columbia scholarship online.
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| Summary: | "In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, Richardson maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential informed by a more complete and nuanced understanding of both ideology and science."--Dust cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231543767 023154376X |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |